CURRICULUM VITAE
György C. Kálmán
Home: 2092 Budakeszi, Rigli u. 8.
tel
(36-)23/450-910
Office:
Institute for Literary Studies,
tel
(36-)1/4667-271
http://www.btk.pte.hu/tanszekek/irodalom/moderntsz
Present positions
Senior
researcher, Department of Literary Theory, Institute for literary Studies of
the
Education and Theses
Habilitation
(theses and lectures in order to be qualified as a full professor):
“Communities, Canons, Interpretations” (in Hung.) 2000, Graduate School of
Literary Studies,
PhD (= Candidate’s Degree, CSc)
Literature as speech act: A study in the history of literary theory (in Hung.) 1990.
MA Critical receptions of a Hungarian volume
of poetry (in Hung.), 1977.Eötvös L. University,
BA Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Arts,
Current areas of research
Interrelations of pragmatics
and literary theory
Interpretation theory:
interpretive communities, professional/lay interpretation, sociology of
interpretation
Contemporary and 20th
century Hungarian literature
Knowledge of languages
Hungarian native
English excellent,
written & spoken
French good,
written
Positions held
2000-2007 Professor, Dept. of Modern Literature and
Literary Theory,
2000-2004 Head of Dept. of Modern Literatures and
Literary Theory,
1991-- Senior researcher at the Department
of Literary Theory, Institute for Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences, Budapest (henceforth ILS, HAcSc)
1990- Senior lecturer (as of 2000,
Professor) at the Dept. of Literary Theory at the
1986-1990 Researcher at the Department of Literary
Theory, ILS, HAcSc
1983-1986 Researcher at the Department of Modern
Hungarian Literature, ILS, HAcSc
1979-1983 Librarian, ILS, HAcSc
1978
- 1979 /span>Teacher of literature at the I.
Stephan Secondary School of Economy and Accounting,
1977
- 1978 /span>Odd jobs, translating, writing
lexicon entries and book reviews, teaching Hungarian language at the
2004 Award for Teaching Excellence, Faculty of the Humanities,
2003 Prize for the Year’s Publications,
2003 Writers’ Society Award for Critics
2000 Alföld
Award (for the best publication of the year in the literary magazin
“Alföld”)
1999 Soros Award for Critics
1997
Széchenyi
Professor Grant (a four year state grant for outstanding university professors)
1991 Akadémiai Publishing House Book Award
(for the book “Literature as Speech Act”)
1989 Z. Móricz Award of the Ministry of
Culture
1989 Z. Kanyó Memorial Award
Books
Az irodalom mint beszédaktus (Literature as Speech Act)
Te rongyos
(elm)élet! (You Freakin’ Theory/Life!)
(ed.) Az értelmező
közösségek elmélete (The Theory of Interpretive
Communities).
Mű- és valódi élvezetek
([P]leasures of the [he]art). Pécs: Jelenkor, 2002. pp. 221.
Articles and
Book Chapters
Kafka’s
Prometheus. Neohelicon 34(2007), 1: 51-58.
„Translating Language, Text, Short Story, Genre,
Style, Literary Trend… and Culture.” In: Rein Undusk, ed. At the End of the World. Text, Motif, Culture.
The Novels of György Konrád – Fiction and Experiment. Literatura (English Special Issue) 30(2004), 58-73.
The
Professionals’ Field of Operation: Canons. In: Raja Kuncheva
at al., eds. Da otgledas smszela. Sbornik v chezt na
Radosvet Kolarov.
Sofiya, Izdatelski centar “Boyan Penev”, 2004. 74-82.
Marginal Characters of (Literary Hi)story: The Popular, the Avant-Garde,
the Subcultural in Totalizing Literary Historical
Narratives. Neohelicon XXX (2003) 2, 41-48.
After Dictatorships: Transition, Modernity, Post-Modernity and Power. In Djelal Kadir, Dorothea Löbbermann, eds. Other Modernisms in an Age of Globalization. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2002, 63-73.
Literaturovedennie, 90-e gody. Inostrannaja Literatura 2001, No. 3., 223-229.
On happiness, or the performative
without conditions. Neohelicon 28(2001), 2, 51-54.
Ideologies of (and in)
interpretation. About 400 pages,
Kanonizirani interpretacii. Literaturna mis’l (Sofia) 45(2001), 1-2, 122-132.
Canonised Interpretations. In: Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, ed. National Heritage - National Canon. Budapest: Collegium Budapest Workshop Series, 2001, No. 11, 95-106.
“Literariness
of Theory,” Neohelicon 27(2000):1, 15-20.
Ways of Representing Discontinuous Memories: Re-arranging the Canonical Order by Breaking with Classical Literary Historiography. In Vervliet, Raymond and Annemarie Estor, eds. Methods for the Study of Literature as Cultural Memory. Volume 6 of the Proceedings of the XVth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association “Literature as Cultural Memory”, Leiden 16-22 August 1997. Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 2000, ??-?? pp. [Series: Textxet. Studies in Comparative Literature 30 Proceedings of the XVth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association “Literature as Cultural Memory”]
„What
Is Wrong with Interpretive Communities?” In: Ernő Kulcsár-Szabó, Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, hrsg.: Epoche, Text, Modalitaet. Diskurs der Moderne in der ungarischen Literaturwissenschaft. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag,
1999. 195-212.
A New Bibliography of Critical Theory. Donald G. Marshall: Contemporary Critical Theory: A Selective Bibliography. Poetics Today 18(1997): 1: 121-125.
Carlos Reis: Towards a Semiotics of Ideology. (1993). Poetics Today 18(1997): 1: 134-137.
Ellen Spolsky, ed. Summoning: Ideas of the Covenant and Interpretive Theory. (1993). Poetics Today 18(1997): 1: 139-140.
What Is Wrong with Interpretive Communities? Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 3(1997), 1: 53-73.
Signs/signals of literariness. Sign Theory vs Reception Theory. In: Michel Balat, Janice Deledalle-Rhodes, éd. Signs of Humanity. L'homme et ses signes. Vol. 1. The Hague - Paris: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992, 513-519.
Boundaries of interpretive communities. In: D. Fokkema, ed. Proceedings of the 12th Congress of the ICLA, Münich, 1988. Vol. 5. München: Iudicium Verlag, 1990, 105-111.
Comparing criticism to what. Neohelicon 17(1990): 1: 79-100.
Hungary. In: New Literary History International Bibliography of literary theory and interpretation 1984-1985. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. P., 1988.
(With Gábor Prószéky, László Kálmán, Ádám Nádasdy) Hocus, focus, and verb types in Hungarian infinitive constructions. In: Werner Abraham, S. de Mey, eds., Topic, focus, and configurationality. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1986, 129-142.
The rise of the absurd (?) in Hungarian drama. Neohelicon 13(1986), No. 1.: 163-176.
Some borderline cases of translation. New Comparison 1(1986), No.1.: 117-122. (In Turkish: Çeviride Bazı Sınır Durumlar. Metis (İstambul), 14(1991 Kiş), pp. ??) – See also in José Lambert, André Lefevere, eds. La traduction dans le développement des littératures. Bern etc.: Peter Lang, 1993, 69-72.
(With Gábor Prószéky, László Kálmán, Ádám Nádasdy) Topic, focus, and auxiliaries in Hungarian. Groningen Arbeiten zur germanistischen Linguistik 24(1984), 162-177.
Context. The main factor of the receiver's creativity. Proceedings of the 9th International Congress of Aesthetics. Dubrovnik, 1980. Vol. 2. Beograd, 1980. Vol. 3. (Abstracts) Beograd, 1980.
Teaching
1992-2007 Senior lecturer, then Professor at the
Department of Literary Theory,
1986
- 1987 /span>Teacher of Hungarian language,
courses for American students at the Budapest University of Economy
1987-1988 Teacher of literature, courses in the
history of Hungarian literature for American students at the Eötvös Collegium, L. Eötvös Univ.,
Conference Presentations
2005 Pécs,
2004
2002
2002
2002
2002 Pécs,
2001
2000 Pécs,
2000
1998
1989
1989
1988
1986
1985 Paris, 11th Congress of the AILC
1984
1980
Other scholarly visits
1993
- 1994 /span>Tel Aviv, Porter Institute of
the
1993
1992
1990
1989
1987
Other Scholarly Activities
2003-present Editor,
BUKSZ (Budapest Book Review)
1997-
present member,
Literary Studies Committee,
1997-
2002 Honorary Secretary, Literary
Studies Committee,
1995-96 Editor of the literary journal 2000
1993- present Member of the editorial Board, Café Babel
1992-95 Regular book reviewer and member of the editorial board, Beszélô
1991-94 Honorary Secretary, Poetics Committee,
1990- present Editor, Literatura, journal of the
Institute for Literary Studies
Professional societies
1985- International Association of Hungarian Studies
1984- AILC/ICLA: Association Internationale
de Littérature Comparée
1987- 1993 International
Association for Semiotic Studies
1997-2004 Member of the Committee of
Literary Theory of the AILC